How-2 create a ramdisk filesystem image --------------------------------------- March 2004, @Frank4DD The image should be small to leave enough main memory for standard operations, but big enough to fit a variety of programs to be flexible in its use. Mainstream memory is available between 256MB and 2GB. My preference is to get smaller but fast memory, so I'll try to get by with as little as 256MB main memory by sizing the ramdisk to 64MB. 1.create a empty 64MB file -------------------------- dd if=/dev/zero of=net4 bs=1M count=64 2. create filesystem in the 64MB file ------------------------------------- mke2fs -F -m 0 -b 1024 net4 3. mount the new 64MB image file -------------------------------- mkdir net4-mount mount -o loop net4 net4-mount Done. Next, configure, compile and install busybox into the mounted image (configure --prefix=net4-mount).